Let's keep in mind that no library is going to have 40 public network terminals -- even the main branches of libraries in major cities I've visited usually only have 10-15 terminals available.
For a smaller library with maybe only 4-8 seats, a group of PCs is going to be a a much small upfront cost than a Sun Ray/Solaris server configuration.
He took a worm and modified it and released it. That's not much different in spirit from what many of us did at his age, playing with tech, poking at it, learning how things work.
Except for the whole "released it" part.
Some of us may have built potato cannons when we were young, too, and there's certainly a legitimate educational experience to be found there. But if we used those cannons to smash the windows out of automobiles, that wouldn't be educational, it would be destructive and meritless.
There's a line where curious tinkering becomes malicious activity, and the kid crossed it.
He could have been shot at dawn under trumped up terrorism charges.
No he couldn't have.
(Or at least, it hasn't happened, and it won't, because it would be blatantly illegal and unconstitutional in ways that not even Ashcroft could defend.)
I understand if you have a rabid and fanatical hatred of Pres. Bush and his policies, but don't go off the deep end.
Slowing down the processor turns a real time game into a turn based game.
Perhaps this used to be true years ago, but modern systems use a real-time clock to determine game timing. Underclocking will reduce the number of instructions executed per second, but will not change the length of a second itself.
it simply doesnt have enough keys to do more than keyboard shortcuts and macros.
Belkin's site states that you can program up to 104 functions using it -- that's enough to implement a full keyboard with (even SysRq and Scroll Lock)!
Teaching yourself custom chordings for all the different keycodes, now that'll be the challenge.
Seriously, though. Demopublicans, Republicrats, same same.
No. They're really not.
Yes, the two parties agree on some issues, but they are diametrically opposed on many others. The last four years of GOP-dominated national politics should be proof enough of that.
That's why dessert choice should be a decision left to the family, and not mandated by the restaurant.
Sure, it takes money and/or connections to get a job in the House of Restaurantentatives, but almost anyone has the resources to run for a seat with the Family Freeholders.
Information you are not in control of will be used to control you. Better it simply not exist at all.
Acroyear, can you explain this to me in more detail?
You do not control the information on the internet--no one individual (or group, or even nation) can. Does this mean that you, acroyear specifically, SHOULD control the internet? Or is your argument that the internet should not exist?
Only if you don't know aobut nsswitch, which your friend apparently doesn't. Everything in Linux makes more sense once you know about pam and nss. I have linux systems here authenticating against an NT domain, it's easy!
OF COURSE it's easy once you find out about the obscure and mysterious utilities!
Developers know that 90% of the people coming to their websites will have support for this feature, and will use it on the sites they design.
Bad developers will, yes. Forward-thinking web developers know that what's true today may not be true tomorrow, and strive in their designs to use only a baseline feature set supported by most, if not all, modern browsers.
(Which RFCs are you referring to that define HTTP browser behaviors, anyway?)
So was it mis-reported that Katie Tarbox's personal lawyer was trying to get Katie Jones to give up the domain?
I don't recall it ever being reported that was the case at all, if repetition of misunderstanding as fact by Slashdotters and others doesn't count as "reporting".
Katie Jones is hardly an impartial source, is she?
If there is a record of what was actually spoken in those conversations, that would be one thing. For now, it can't be anything more than a case of she-said/she-said, and we only know half of that story.
She's the author of the book. Generally speaking the publisher clears the title with the author. If she didn't get the right to veto titles in her contract, then she's at fault just because she's clueless
Do you work in the publishing industry, or are you just spewing your own ideas about how you think the industry SHOULD work?
I'd bet you 20 Karma points that veto power over a book's title is not a standard clause in an author's contract with a book publisher. Katie T. just wrote the book; the marketing of it (including the title) is more than likely all Penguin's doing.
Oh yeah, that's just what we need, engineering students whose mindset is that of a business owner.
Actually, we do. Real-world end results are what actually matters.
How about busting your butt to achieve something?
I've known a lot of engineering students at Cornell. Suggesting that they don't "bust their butts" or serve as puppets of the Microsoft PR machine makes me laugh. A lot.
Think about this -- if the Cornell UAV team hadn't accomplished something unprecedented, would it have been "news for nerds"? Frankly I don't see why you care whether they developed new technologies from scratch, or built upon existing technologies.
The sidekick, mark 1, suffers from having a fantastic java based architecture.. and -zip- all for software.
Unfortunately, the Hiptop Java architecture does not (as of the last press release I saw about it) conform to J2ME specifications, making it more than trivial to port existing Java mobile apps onto the platform.
Danger does support a development community for the Hiptop (free to join, but an NDA agreement is required), but carriers like T-Mobile have been slow to offer the output of that community to the public.
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with the specs listed (1GHz, 256-512 RAM), you're not really talking desktop or even normal laptop computing power.
Yes, the downside is that they're only as powerful as a 2-3 year old notebook computer.
The upside is that they're an order of magnitude more powerful than the average PDA currently on the market.
Let's keep in mind that no library is going to have 40 public network terminals -- even the main branches of libraries in major cities I've visited usually only have 10-15 terminals available.
For a smaller library with maybe only 4-8 seats, a group of PCs is going to be a a much small upfront cost than a Sun Ray/Solaris server configuration.
Almost everything he talked about is in someform of completion on the http://www.mythtv.org/.
"Some form of completion" isn't good enough. When the features are fully complete and ready for the consumer market, let me know.
He took a worm and modified it and released it. That's not much different in spirit from what many of us did at his age, playing with tech, poking at it, learning how things work.
Except for the whole "released it" part.
Some of us may have built potato cannons when we were young, too, and there's certainly a legitimate educational experience to be found there. But if we used those cannons to smash the windows out of automobiles, that wouldn't be educational, it would be destructive and meritless.
There's a line where curious tinkering becomes malicious activity, and the kid crossed it.
if the worm did it's job through the use of an OS exploit, why isn't the OS creator picking up part of the bill?
Every software EULA ever says "we're not sure whether this product is flawless, if something bad happens it's not our fault".
He could have been shot at dawn under trumped up terrorism charges.
No he couldn't have.
(Or at least, it hasn't happened, and it won't, because it would be blatantly illegal and unconstitutional in ways that not even Ashcroft could defend.)
I understand if you have a rabid and fanatical hatred of Pres. Bush and his policies, but don't go off the deep end.
Slowing down the processor turns a real time game into a turn based game.
Perhaps this used to be true years ago, but modern systems use a real-time clock to determine game timing. Underclocking will reduce the number of instructions executed per second, but will not change the length of a second itself.
it simply doesnt have enough keys to do more than keyboard shortcuts and macros.
Belkin's site states that you can program up to 104 functions using it -- that's enough to implement a full keyboard with (even SysRq and Scroll Lock)!
Teaching yourself custom chordings for all the different keycodes, now that'll be the challenge.
Seriously, though. Demopublicans, Republicrats, same same.
No. They're really not.
Yes, the two parties agree on some issues, but they are diametrically opposed on many others. The last four years of GOP-dominated national politics should be proof enough of that.
That's why dessert choice should be a decision left to the family, and not mandated by the restaurant.
Sure, it takes money and/or connections to get a job in the House of Restaurantentatives, but almost anyone has the resources to run for a seat with the Family Freeholders.
Change starts locally.
Information you are not in control of will be used to control you. Better it simply not exist at all.
Acroyear, can you explain this to me in more detail?
You do not control the information on the internet--no one individual (or group, or even nation) can. Does this mean that you, acroyear specifically, SHOULD control the internet? Or is your argument that the internet should not exist?
Only if you don't know aobut nsswitch, which your friend apparently doesn't. Everything in Linux makes more sense once you know about pam and nss. I have linux systems here authenticating against an NT domain, it's easy!
OF COURSE it's easy once you find out about the obscure and mysterious utilities!
At one time, Apple had the best hardware, the best OS, and all the big hit programs came out on the Mac first.
Except for games, 'f course. And what's really more important to the home computer market: Excel, or King's Quest?
CGA was 640x200 and Hercules had an even higher resolution. These are of course monochrome.
Additionally, PC displays of that era were commonly 12 to 14" diagonal, whereas early Macs were usually limited to the built-in 9" CRT.
I would say to be fair that Windows 3.11 did not totaly suck and was even useful.
I would say that Win3.1x was both useful AND did totally suck, but that's just me.
Developers know that 90% of the people coming to their websites will have support for this feature, and will use it on the sites they design.
Bad developers will, yes. Forward-thinking web developers know that what's true today may not be true tomorrow, and strive in their designs to use only a baseline feature set supported by most, if not all, modern browsers.
(Which RFCs are you referring to that define HTTP browser behaviors, anyway?)
Katie T's lawyer CAN'T do ANYTHING without the ok of Ms Tarbox.
Okay, but by Katie T's own admission:
ktarbox261: Parry Aftab is not my lawyer and never has been.
So was it mis-reported that Katie Tarbox's personal lawyer was trying to get Katie Jones to give up the domain?
I don't recall it ever being reported that was the case at all, if repetition of misunderstanding as fact by Slashdotters and others doesn't count as "reporting".
the only remaining question is: will Chubby Aftab apologize for the threats now
Maybe she'll apologize for that when YOU apologize to HER for that ad-hominem attack, ass.
Katie Jones is hardly an impartial source, is she?
If there is a record of what was actually spoken in those conversations, that would be one thing. For now, it can't be anything more than a case of she-said/she-said, and we only know half of that story.
What makes it even less informative is that these "experts" are not experts in the field that's being discussed.
You're telling us that DEFCON attendees are not experts in the field of security as it pertains to electronic systems...?
She's the author of the book. Generally speaking the publisher clears the title with the author. If she didn't get the right to veto titles in her contract, then she's at fault just because she's clueless
Do you work in the publishing industry, or are you just spewing your own ideas about how you think the industry SHOULD work?
I'd bet you 20 Karma points that veto power over a book's title is not a standard clause in an author's contract with a book publisher. Katie T. just wrote the book; the marketing of it (including the title) is more than likely all Penguin's doing.
Oh yeah, that's just what we need, engineering students whose mindset is that of a business owner.
Actually, we do. Real-world end results are what actually matters.
How about busting your butt to achieve something?
I've known a lot of engineering students at Cornell. Suggesting that they don't "bust their butts" or serve as puppets of the Microsoft PR machine makes me laugh. A lot.
Think about this -- if the Cornell UAV team hadn't accomplished something unprecedented, would it have been "news for nerds"? Frankly I don't see why you care whether they developed new technologies from scratch, or built upon existing technologies.
Danger seems like a very creepy company.
The Woz sits on their advisory board. How creepy can they be?
The sidekick, mark 1, suffers from having a fantastic java based architecture.. and -zip- all for software.
Unfortunately, the Hiptop Java architecture does not (as of the last press release I saw about it) conform to J2ME specifications, making it more than trivial to port existing Java mobile apps onto the platform.
Danger does support a development community for the Hiptop (free to join, but an NDA agreement is required), but carriers like T-Mobile have been slow to offer the output of that community to the public.
The Sidekick is not THAT big! It's really no larger than a bar of soap.
(Hmm, perhaps I should come up with a different comparison for the benefit of Slashdot geeks...)